# truckle
## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtɹʌkəl/
* Rhymes: -ʌkəl
** Audio (Southern England):(file)

### Etymology 1

From Middle English trokel, trocle, trookyl, from Anglo-Norman trocle, from Medieval Latin trochlea (“a block, sheaf containing one or more pulleys”); or from a diminutive of truck (“wheel”), formed with -le, equivalent to truck +‎ -le.

#### Noun

truckle (plural truckles)
* A small wheel; a caster or pulley.
* A small wheel of cheese.
* Ellipsis of truckle bed..
    Synonyms: truckle bed, trundle bed, trundle

##### Alternative forms

* troccle (obsolete)

##### Derived terms

* truckle bed

#### Verb

truckle (third-person singular simple present truckles, present participle truckling, simple past and past participle truckled)
* To roll or move upon truckles, or casters; to trundle.
* (intransitive) To sleep in a truckle bed.

### Etymology 2

From a back formation of truckle bed (a bed on which a pupil slept, because it was rolled on casters into a lower position under the master's larger bed), from Middle English trookylbed. Compare also trundle bed. Assisted by false association with Middle English *trukelen, truken, trokien, trukien, from Old English trucian (“to fail, diminish”), Low German truggeln (“to flatter, fawn”), see truck.(Can this etymology be sourced?)

#### Verb

truckle (third-person singular simple present truckles, present participle truckling, simple past and past participle truckled)
* (intransitive) To act in a submissive manner; to fawn, submit to a superior.
** 1869, Louisa May Alcott, Little Women:"Why in the world should you spend your money, worry your family, and turn the house upside down for a parcel of girls who don't care a sixpence for you? I thought you had too much pride and sense to truckle to any mortal woman just because she wears French boots and rides in a coupe," said Jo, who, being called from the tragic climax of her novel, was not in the best mood for social enterprises. "I don't truckle, and I hate being patronized as much as you do!" returned Amy indignantly, for the two still jangled when such questions arose.
** 1899, William Graham Sumner, “The Conquest of the United States by Spain”, in War and Other Essays, Yale, published 1911, page 302:There is no doubt […] that truckling to popularity is the worst political vice.
** 1687, John Norris, A Collection of Miscellanies, consisting of Poems, Essays, Discourses and Letters:Religion it self is forced to truckle to worldly policy.

##### Derived terms

* truckler

##### Translations
### References

* Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967

## Yola
### Etymology

From Middle English trokel, from Anglo-Norman trocle, from Medieval Latin trochlea (“a block, sheaf containing one or more pulleys”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtrʊkl/

### Noun

truckle
* car
    Synonym: car
** 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, pages 71:A truckle is ee-teap'd.The car is overturned.
** 1927, “ZONG OF TWI MAARKEET MOANS”, in THE ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD, page 129, lines 4:Fan a truckle ee zhoulthered too nigh upa ditch.When the car it moved too near to the ditch.

### References

* ↑ Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867
* ↑ Kathleen A. Browne (1927) The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland Sixth Series, Vol.17 No.2, Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland